The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-02-10

ernmenp LOT one n6Cat year AZ I0a0Cs Wlun'
out any reduction OF the internal revenue
or other tax.
Judge Kelley is preparing q bill for the
repeal OF the internal tax on tobacco. 1t
viii be untrammeled by other issues.
Miss Phoebe Couzins has been sick for
some time and has not been able to attend
to her duties as deputy United States
marshall at st. Louis.
General Master Workman Powderly has
issued q circular complaining OF the I'M
mense amount of mail matter he receives
about 3O0letters daily-and telling people
to send their correspondence to the general
secretary. He says his health is failing.
A friend OF the president says that he has
felt the necessity OF recognizing the labor
element on this commission, and ii he con.
cludes to do so q place on the board will
be rendered to w. o. Mcdowell, promi-
careful study OF the railroad problem. Mr..
Mcdowell is practical railroad man. and
also a thoroughly equipped business man!
News was received at Milwaukee, from
st. Augustine. Fla, OF the death OF Royal
Jennings, treasurer OF the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul road, Tuesday alter
noon the 1st inst. His son, X. L. Jennings,
who left Milwaukee Sunday in response to
telegram. reached St. Augustine just two
be brought to Milwaukee.
Several blocks were burned at Chetopa,
Kan. Loss, $40, 900; insurance, $50, 900.
The executive committee OF the New
York Central Railroad company appointed
Henry Monett general passenger agent in
place OF D. NJ. kendrick, recently deceased.
Mr.. Monett is a young man, but his ser
vices in the railroad have been OF II bril-
liant and effective nature.
Hon. John H. Reagan has handed in his
resignation as u member OF the house oil
representatives OF the Fiftieth congress.
He will serve out his term in the Forty
ninth congress.
At Jersey City, N. j., the coroners Jury
in the case OF the boy Hogan, who was shot
and killed on Jan. 20, rendered a verdict
that the boy died from bullet wound in
fiicted by Pinkerton Special officer Patrick
Sheehy. The other Pinkerton men under
arrest were committed with Sheehy to
await the action OF the grand jury.
Rev. DR.. E. S. Thomas OF st. Paul. is
elected assistant bishop OF Kansas, and
will probaly accept.
Senator Stanford OF California resembles
Grant in looks and manner more than
any man in public life.
At Helena, Mon, the loss by fire in the
International hotel block is over $50, 900,
although the main building was saved.
The losses are: Marcus Lissner on hotel,
$4,000; II. Label & Co., dry goods. $780,
900; Charles Lehman. general store, 81, 600;
Dewitt & Arnold, $4,000. There was but
S19,O insurance all told, quite evenly
divided.
The attempt on the life of Police Judge
Fitzgerald at Cincinnati by a man who shot
at him at the judges home, WAS the second
attempt OF the kind within q week. A few
days ago, while walking in the street, some
body hurled a brick at his head, narrowly
missing him. The Judge fined alarge
number OF coekfghters, and num-
ber OF these cases are pending. 1t is sus-
pected that the man who shot at Judge
Fitzgerald last night was in the employ OF
these defendants.
Senator Farwell OF Illinois resembles the
| late President Garfield.
| The bill allowing the Fremont, Elkhorn
| &Missouri Valley right OF way through
Fort Meade military reservation in L.i-
kota, which passed the house. has reach
ed the senate and will be called up and
passed, it is said, this week.
The secretary Of the treasury sent a
communication to the senate in answer to
| an inquiry whether any national banks
| were loaning money upon securities or
discounting bills or notes which require
! payments in gold coin only. The secretary
| says: There is no informa tion in the treas
ury department from which it can be as
certained whether or not any national
banks are transacting business in the
manner described.
| report reached here from London that
| Miss Calhoun, the Ameri can actress, is to
| marry William Hearst, son OF the Califor-
| MIA senator This has created sensation
| in society circles. Both Mr.. and Mrs.
Hearst are strongly opposed to the mar.
riage. Young Hearst is now IL student at
| Harvard college.
The Post represents Senator Farwell OF
Illinois as saying in the matter OF Mat
thews the negro register OF deeds: l voted
to confirm him because don't care to be
an obstructionist. l feel that the pres-
dent is responsible to the country for his
acts, and SO l mean to let him have his
own way and even help him to have his
own-way. / shall always vote to confirm
| his nominations unless l know that they
| are not fit to be made. l should be very
sorry to have the senate degenerate into a
mere wasp's nest, bent on worrying and
nagging the president just because it has a
chance: ! want Cleveland to have full
| swing and do his best. | cannot be count
ed on to defeat his purposes without some
adequate and manly motive.
President McCreary, OF the Old Domin.
ion line, has offered a reward of $1,000 0
for the arrest and conviction OF the mis-
ereant xho placed the internal machine n
the steamer Guvandotte. 81
Gov. Foraker publicly announced that
he will not be q candidate for renomina-
ton, assigning as a reason prof ssional IL.
terests,
/ Michael Mccoy, a grocer OF Louisville, KY,
has been accommodated from st. Pat
rick's Catholic Church, OF that city, OWL 6
to his marriage with a Miss Emma Long,
after having secured divorce from his
wife.
Miss Nina Van Zandt has been bra yed
in the mortar OF public opinion, but hi r
folly has not departed from her. She WIS
married to Spies liy proxy by suburban
Dogberry, q brother OF the convict repre-.
senting him in the ceremony. This form
OF marriage is said to be legal.
| At Sterling, ILL.,, r. B. Whitmcr, dry
goods merchant, assigned with 100000
liabilities.
DR.. Mott Alexander committed suicite
at Knoxville, by taking morphine. lie
was one OF the leading physicians OF Knox
vile, but had recently been dissipated. Ee
left q note saying: II die with malice to-
ward none. 60 to hell. Tell my son ia
60 to heaven"
Fanny Davenport lost $135. 900 worth
of diane nds at Memphis. Her husband
gave them to hotel clerk for safety ard
took receipt-clerk vanished.
The supporters OF the pleuro-pneumonia
bill are beginning to lose courage. After
: another long struggle in the house it seems
probable that the bill cannot pass unless
it shall be amended in important particu
| lars.
At Toronto Patrick Burns, coal mer
chant has failed. His liabilities are $400..
900. His assets are believed to be small
The prince Of Wales viii 60 to Berlin
March 1S to represent the royal iamily al
the imperial German fetes.
Something like a sensation was cause,
in the district suprsme court by the pres
} entation OF q petition attacking thecivi
service commission, and asserting the un.
constitutionaiity OF the law by virtue o
which it exists.
Miss Annie Howard hns given to the city
OF New Orleans funds for the erection oil !
| e.oo 1shro l,ui11inU and for an tY,1r